Latest Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm news

The fantasy anthology titled The Book of Magic that was edited by the late Gardner Dozois will finally be published next week. Included is a story by Megan Lindholm called Community Service. This will be our first meeting with Celtsie, a new protagonist who seems to be the one keeping Robin busy at the moment—one of her recent blog entries even mentions Celtsie in relation to writing a novel and planning a map of her world.

Here are the important details: the US edition (amazon, book depository) will be out on the 16^th of October.
The UK edition (amazon, book depository) will be out on the 18^th of October.
Both geographical editions will be available in hardcover, ebook and audio.
For even more information, visit the wiki page for The Book of Magic.

A new short story by Megan Lindholm is set to be included in Unfettered III, an upcoming fantasy anthology edited by Shawn Speakman. The title has not been revealed yet, but it is described as a “ghost story”. The book is scheduled to be published on the 19^th of March 2019. Visit the Unfettered III wiki page for all the details on different editions.

Unbound Worlds is currently offering an excerpt of the first 50 pages of the Book of Swords anthology. The Book of Swords features a Six Duchies story titled Her Father’s Sword and as it happens to be the second story in the book, it’s fully included in this sample!

The Book of Swords has also started to appear around the world in translations this year, including Bulgarian, Italian, Polish and Portuguese. It will also have a followup volume titled The Book of Magic in October, which will include a new Megan Lindholm story.

Robin has just confirmed her traveling schedule for the rest of 2018.
First up is Castlefest in the Netherlands from the 2^nd to the 5^th of August.
Then there’s Festival Bang! in Lisbon, Portugal on the 27^th of October. They’ve put up a video on youtube about it!
And then she’ll also attend the Lucca Comics and Games in Lucca, Italy which takes place form the 31^st of October to the 4^th of November.

Robin Hobb has won the 2018 Legend Award for Assassin’s Fate at the Gemmell Awards, as announced at Edge-Lit in Derby, UK yesterday. This is the tenth year of the Gemmell Awards, which are given for fantasy novels in the traditional, heroic, epic or high genres, or in the spirit of David Gemmell’s own work. The Legend Award is given to the fantasy title judged to be the previous year’s best by open vote. Congratulations, Robin!